How Forgetfulness Almost Cost Me My Home and Finances

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today's topic is jumping my mind, and this refers to those moments in our lives in which we have had an episode that we have forgotten something important.

I think that at some point in our lives, something similar has happened to us for different reasons.

It is basically in human nature, especially in these times when life is so busy and so hectic for most people. We are running from one side to the other, and many times it is easy to overlook certain things that can be significant and important.

In my case, the truth is that I have had several occasions when this has happened to me.

I'm going to tell the most recent one—well, actually, I'm going to tell you several, but I'm going to start by telling you the most recent one that happened to me yesterday.

I usually am someone very organized.

I use my cell phone as a tool to let me know of different tasks and different things that I have to do, such as activities in Discord or hours in which I have to dedicate myself to send a message or to talk to someone specifically. Or times when I have to review certain things to see if I have certain emails or certain information that come to me every certain amount of time or days by email.

Then, I have a calendar in Google Calendar where it warns me and sends me a notification directly to my phone to remind me of this.

But there are times when I find myself working, making a publication, or simply watching a video or talking to someone by Discord, and this notification sounds.

I let it pass because I'm attending to that person or I'm talking to a person at that moment.

It usually happens to me that I miss that notification—that is, I see it because the notification reaches my phone, but instead of stopping what I'm doing (which is talking to that person) and taking care of what the notification tells me, I overlook it.

Then, these involuntary forgets occur.

What happened was that yesterday I put 5 eggs in a pot to prepare 5 hard-boiled eggs, which I usually prepare to have food ready and not have to boil them every time I want to consume them.

I put them in the fridge, and I already have them there prepared, only needing to remove the shells and consume them.

That is, I save myself the time of having to boil them.

Well, I put the 5 eggs to boil and started working and doing various things on the computer. When I do this, I always set a timer with the cooking time that the food I am preparing must have—in this case, it was 20 minutes.

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On the cell phone, I set the timer to 20 minutes for the alarm to ring.

It turned out that I was finishing a publication—yesterday's publication—writing something, and reading a book too. The time passed, the alarm rang, and I said, "Good, as soon as I finish reading this, I'll go and check." And I completely forgot.

To my surprise, after a long time, I started to hear some crackling sounds coming from my kitchen. It was obvious that the water from the eggs had already evaporated, and the pot was burning. I also felt the smell of all the smoke that was in the kitchen.

Fortunately, I managed to save the eggs because I arrived immediately when I felt the smell of burning.

I saw that the pot was completely black, with the eggs also black. However, I turned it off, let it cool, and managed to save the eggs.

This affected me significantly because, taking into account that I live in Venezuela and that my economy—my finances—are quite limited, eggs are a product that is very important but also very expensive for me.

I was not going to be able to replace those eggs that I had lost. This significantly affects my life.

What I did was let it cool, remove the shell, and manage to save most of the eggs.

This is a situation that has already happened to me on two or three occasions.

The other times, it has been because I put the alarm on the cell phone and leave the food heating up—in the other occasions, it has been rice and grains.

Grains, above all, take a long time—more than two or three hours heating up to soften. In these cases, the alarm has sounded, but I have fallen asleep. I have not heard the alarm on my phone, and the pot has ended up burning.

This has been very dangerous for me because the house could have caught fire with me inside.

On one occasion, some neighbors called my attention for that, but I told them that it was not something voluntary.

Well, they began to tell me that I should live with someone else, that I don't know what—those are already personal matters. I told them that, evidently, I would do with my life what seemed best to me, that this was simply an accident that I did not know how to avoid, and in fact, it has not been repeated again.

But it shocked me a lot that the neighbors would like to interfere in my life in that way, telling me that I had to live with someone, etc. Well, these are things of life and of neighborhoods.

In this way, this has affected me.

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A third episode that I am going to comment on is paying with my debit card in a place.

I made all the order, presented my identity document and my debit card, and they charged me the amount for all the food. With the rush, I grabbed my identity document, my food, and the things that I had bought, and I withdrew from the place.

The place is more or less two blocks from where I live, and I went up to my house—I remember that at that time, there was no elevator.

When I arrived at my house and was unpacking all the food and everything that I had bought, I realized that my debit card was not with me.

Obviously, I remembered that I had probably left it in the place where I made the purchases.

This is something very important because with this card, all the food and all the services are paid, and it is something essential in my life.

The bureaucratic process to renew or get a new card in case of loss is really cumbersome. It involves moving to the bank, queuing, and you already know that I am a person who has mobility problems. Moving to a bank institution is really a karma and a challenge for me, at least in the state and situation in which I am currently.

Well, in the end, I decided to go down all the floors where I live (because there was no elevator) and go immediately to the store where I had purchased the food.

Fortunately, they had saved my debit card and returned it to me. But I was very scared because it is an essential element in my life.

The measures that I took for each of the cases are: when I put an alarm on the phone, I attend to it immediately and leave what I am doing to attend to it because the alarms are precisely to tell me that I have to do something at that time.

So now, I am faithful to the alarms that I program, both in Google Calendar and in the timer of my smartphone.

On the other hand, when I go to buy food and this type of thing, I am very aware that I really return the identity document and the debit card.

I have also taken the precaution of not going to bed when I am cooking something because it is very dangerous. I cannot allow that.

Now, my rules include not sleeping or resting while I am preparing food or heating something in the kitchen.

This has been my participation for today's topic.

I hope it has been entertaining and you have learned something.

Thank you very much, and until next time.

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